Posted on 04/23/2023 1:59:57 PM PDT by RandFan
@johncardillo
There is no excuse for Trump abdicating his presidency to Fauci.
None whatsoever.
You can debate civil service laws on firing, but Trump had full control over who was invited to meetings, put on air, and whose advice to follow.
We didn’t elect Fauci. Trump coronated him.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
I did not follow each state. All I know is that FL did more things right than any state except SD
For the record, I opposed lockdowns except for the very infirm on Day One. I opposed the trillions in handouts to salve the results of horrible decisions.
IMO, Trump should have seen through ghoul Fauxi quickly, and he did not.
Don’t forget about Birx. She was just as complicit as Fauci. Fauci still had a day job running NIAID and covering up his department’s involvement with funding WIV during the early days of the pandemic. She was in charge of arm twisting states to lockdown. At least she had the decency to resign after telling everybody not to travel during Thanksgiving, but travelled to visit her family members.
You should also remember I was here from 1997 [26th FR anniversary last month! :) ] but merely changed my screen name, which was my REAL name, and a dangerous way to post, for employment's sake.
Which is longer than you, skippy.
24 years, and you've seen everything the Media does roll by on the FR front page - and you are STILL naive about how they operate.
Hunter Biden's laptop, anyone? - all while they hammer some old dude for fearing for his life, and shooting a possible feral tugging at the door of his own house.
Oh, I did not forget that scarfed witch.
Nice observation..
Plenty were demanding shut downs. Lots of revisionist history now. The pro-vaxxers were also a large contingent.
After 9-11 the FR was overrun with Patriot Act supporters. Where are they now?
This is common. I can currently find no one in my generation now who opposed the Vietnam War. At least that’s what they say. People re-edit their pasts to make themselves look good.
Thanks.
It’s very easy to say now what should have been done 3 years ago.
My Hope Is that lessons have been learned about what should happen if another disease is spreading. My hope is that we have learned that shut downs and restrictions placed on people, didn’t work the way the experts said they would.
Perhaps another good lesson lesrned is that, someone such as Doctor Fauci had too much power and influence over decisions such as shutdowns of schools, and urging us to wear a mask.
To be fair Florida has an awful high population of the elderly. It was going to be a poop sandwich there regardless of lockdowns.
“You don’t understand how these things work, do you?”
Of course I do.
So does anyone who bothers to read what Trump actually said in his March 13, 2020 “Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak” that you claim locked down the country.
There is nothing in that proclamation that does what you say it does. Which is why you didn’t bother to post any smoking gun content from it. Because there is nothing in it for you to quote.
Here is the entire text of Trump’s proclamation:
In December 2019, a novel (new) coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 (“the virus”) was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China, causing outbreaks of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 that has now spread globally. The Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared a public health emergency on January 31, 2020, under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d), in response to COVID-19. I have taken sweeping action to control the spread of the virus in the United States, including by suspending entry of foreign nationals seeking entry who had been physically present within the prior 14 days in certain jurisdictions where COVID-19 outbreaks have occurred, including the People’s Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Schengen Area of Europe. The Federal Government, along with State and local governments, has taken preventive and proactive measures to slow the spread of the virus and treat those affected, including by instituting Federal quarantines for individuals evacuated from foreign nations, issuing a declaration pursuant to section 319F‑3 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d‑6d), and releasing policies to accelerate the acquisition of personal protective equipment and streamline bringing new diagnostic capabilities to laboratories. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that the COVID-19 outbreak can be characterized as a pandemic, as the rates of infection continue to rise in many locations around the world and across the United States.
The spread of COVID-19 within our Nation’s communities threatens to strain our Nation’s healthcare systems. As of March 12, 2020, 1,645 people from 47 States have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. It is incumbent on hospitals and medical facilities throughout the country to assess their preparedness posture and be prepared to surge capacity and capability. Additional measures, however, are needed to successfully contain and combat the virus in the United States.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 201 and 301 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) and consistent with section 1135 of the Social Security Act (SSA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 1320b-5), do hereby find and proclaim that the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States constitutes a national emergency, beginning March 1, 2020. Pursuant to this declaration, I direct as follows:
Section 1. Emergency Authority. The Secretary of HHS may exercise the authority under section 1135 of the SSA to temporarily waive or modify certain requirements of the Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children’s Health Insurance programs and of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule throughout the duration of the public health emergency declared in response to the COVID‑19 outbreak.
Sec. 2. Certification and Notice. In exercising this authority, the Secretary of HHS shall provide certification and advance written notice to the Congress as required by section 1135(d) of the SSA (42 U.S.C. 1320b-5(d)).
Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This proclamation shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This proclamation is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fourth.
DONALD J. TRUMP
The White House
The media behaved like savage animals during Trump’s term.
I’m fully aware of that.
But what I do is compare.
Give you an example:
President Reagan walking to Marine One would have the media gaggle shout out questions to him.
Some of the most disrespectful and stupid questions ever.
What did President Reagan do? He kept walking, held his hand up to his ear as if he can’t hear them waved and smiled.
The media did the same thing to President Trump.
What did President Trump do?
He walked over to them, argued with them, sometimes getting into a shouting match, called some of them fake news and stomped off.
President Reagan starved them and weaken them.
President Trump fed the beast and made it stronger.
The tales of two Presidents.
I’m not naive about the media.
But I do know if a President moves forward without regard to the media it’s better for the Country.
Oh, so all those obnoxious admonitions by state and local officials, as well as corporations and businesses, that all was being done in accordance with these Trump-enabled "CDC guidelines" were figments of our imaginations?
Give me a break!
That proclamation had teeth and enabled everything bad that subsequently happened at the state and local levels. Which is why liberals fought so hard to keep it in place before Congress finally overrode it last month, with Biden signing the bill.
Keep on trying to give Trump a pass. It ain't working.
Here's a reminder:
Flashback to March 16, 2020:
WATCH: Trump holds briefing with novel coronavirus task force - March 16, 2020
Trump destroyed the credibility of the Media for those with eyes to see. A small portion of the country refuses to see.
Reagan was taking baby steps in that direction - and the Media came back with a vengeance during the Smirking Chimp's two terms.
Then why didn’t he fire Fauci? Or Brix?
Reagan fired the nation’s Air Traffic Controllers.
Smirking Chimp? You’re referring to Bush 41?
I don’t know your made up slang.
Bush 41 paid the price for his failures.
I can explain the Media to you, but I can’t understand it for you.
The reason that you keep reverting to “state and local officials, as well as corporations and businesses” is because they did what you want to blame on Trump.
You fail to produce Trump ordering the country closed because he didn’t.
But then a lack of fact has never stopped a TDS zealot. Quod erat demonstrandum.
Yeah, I get it, the buck stops with every other president except Trump.
I'll leave this right here for you to munch on...
Trump Insists He Has ‘Total’ Authority to Supersede Governors
Hours after two groups of governors announced that they were forming regional working groups to help plan when it would be safe to ease restrictions and reopen their economies, President Trump asserted in a White House news briefing that the authority to make such decisions rested with him.
“The president of the United States calls the shots,” Mr. Trump said. “They can’t do anything without the approval of the president of the United States.”
In Trump’s own words.
https://twitter.com/redstates3/status/1650458492061270016?s=61&t=Blsxn1y3A06079Ge77zASg
Funny how there isn’t a link to the full CSpan video. But then maybe getting to see context isn’t what RedState wants. Trump issued a travel ban as early as January 2020. How do you know what he is referring to based on that clip?
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